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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 02/10/2026

no same deadline! Still working on recruiting :)

Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 01/10/2026

you want to see 20 year olds trying out flag semaphore through a window and morse code from across the room, right? I thought so! #othernetworks @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social

visible through a glass window with rainbow vinyl decals running along the bottom of it is a young woman in sweatshirt and jeans doing flag semaphore with her arms and behind her and to her left is a young man in a black t-shirt and black jeans signalling the same letter with flags

a young man wearing a purple sweatshirt, black jeans, and brown boots sits on a metal chair and transmits morse code through a telegraph key; the output of the electrical signals is a flashing red light

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 01/10/2026

Thank you and truly, likewise!

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 01/10/2026

I would love to take your class! (must resist the mid semester urge to throw it all away and go to law school because remember how great it was to be a student etc)

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 01/10/2026

bonus points for having to send ANOTHER email that says “I’m so sorry when I wrote 7am and then 2pm I actually meant 4pm!”

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 01/10/2026

truly does help knowing I’m not the only one flailing around!

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 01/10/2026

and also that time in the semester where we all cry but mostly students cry to me and I cry...away from students. sniffle. "I'm just really tired!" sniffle.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 01/10/2026

I call "TIME OUT! TIME OUT!" for...72 hours?

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 01/10/2026

oh it's just called Lori Needs a Big Time Out.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 01/10/2026

I don't know what this is called exactly BUT it's clearly that point in the semester where I send emails with wrong dates, cc the wrong people, show up to meetings late, misjudge how long certain arduous administrative tasks will take, fail to print documents, fail to connect to the projector, etc.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 01/10/2026

woah. mostly, I am amazed at how my eyes didn't pick up all these absurdities!

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 01/10/2026

oh gawd...thank you for picking this up! I need to learn to have more fine-tuned attention to these things

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 30/09/2026

curious to know whether a website with double spacing indicates it's been AI-generated? I am feeling increasingly clumsy with my ability to discern what's AI-gen and what's not---

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 28/09/2026

still recruiting for our MA and PhD programs! and for the record, prospective international students are very much welcome to apply---

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 27/09/2026

it would be easy enough for us or for someone to make available a pdf or jpeg of sign that could be printed off...!

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 27/09/2026

"a history of negotiated failures" is so beautifully put. without a doubt, trying to get the CRT working took up most of the years and eventually these particular failures became absurd (ie the final failure was installing the screen upside-down)

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 27/09/2026

also how my heart soared when I saw this a few blocks from my house

Flock camera installed by the side of a busy road in Boulder, Colorado. A yellow signed has been posted in front of the camera and reads “AI SURVEILLANCE CAMERA Flock Safety” followed by a “deflock” url

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 27/09/2026

I love using the word “fancy” (always apoken with a certain face on) when I’m with someone I connect with. And sure enough, they know exactly everything I’m trying to communicate with that one word.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 26/09/2026

lovely Saturday afternoon spent listening to the radio and finishing up construction of the very human, intentionally rough zine @rose-alibi.interferencer.com and I made for the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social: "How to spend ten years repairing a computer and why you should too" #othernetworks

four copies of a black and white zine arranged in a fan on a grey metal table. the cover is supposed to signal that it was designed on an Apple IIe computer using Print Shop and then printed on an ImageWriter printer. the zine has been sewn together using turquoise and pink thread, also clearly visible at the top and bottom of the binding

a pile of unbound zines, several piles of bound zines, a paper towel with a pile of scraps of pink and turquoise binding thread, a zine open to the last page with a black pen holding it open, and a box of finished zines all sit atop a grey metal desk

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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 25/09/2026

Click "Download Full Zip" at the bottom of this page before Flock gets it way. flocksurveillance.org

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/09/2026

but, um, unlike Leo, I do not think this position on AI in relation to human dignity necessarily, logically leads to a pro-life stance as well...it's a skewed take on what it means to have consistency in one's thinking

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/09/2026

Pope Leo on #AI: "while 'intelligence' is attributed to computational systems, we struggle to recognize the inalienable dignity of human persons, whose lives are judged according to the criterion of efficiency &, when deemed no longer productive, are rejected & discarded" apnews.com/article/pope...

apnews.com

Pope warns a ‘paradise of machines’ could undermine humanity as he opens France trip

Pope Leo XIV has warned that a "paradise of machines" could undermine humanity. He raises concerns about artificial intelligence, nuclear arms, and human rights during his visit to France.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/09/2026

other than reading about radio in 1930s Berlin, so far the highlight of the day: a performatively sincere & actually sincere conversation with the vet about how all the animals we take care of are enthusiastic, frequent users of swear words followed by an extensive list of examples. #othernetworks

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 24/09/2026

Squirrel Communicology update: Québécois squirrel techniques for transmitting culture are predictably more sophisticated...

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 23/09/2026

“I can’t seek out a spiritual advisor - because people are annoying” is something I said out loud today.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 02/06/2026

in 1987 OMNI magazine asked Claude Shannon, "Can you imagine a robot President of the United States?" and Shannon responds, "Could be! I think by then you wouldn't speak of the United States any more. It would be a totally different organization." uh huh.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 18/09/2026

other than what one situation makes possible for one’s inner life and sense of possibility, everything else was the same - people going about their business, some speeding, some not, no particular signs of crime or imminent danger.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 18/09/2026

just remembered walking down a street in Warsaw last week, with a friend, looking up, doing my usual half conscious clocking of surveillance cameras that are now ubiquitous across all US cities (on every pole, at every intersection, along every street and path) and suddenly realized I only saw…one.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 17/09/2026

on my way to teach this morning, in front of the very building my class meets in, a hawk and I surprised each other, made eye contact, and he or she said quite plainly to me, “don’t even think about fucking with me.” And continued to decimate a long dead baby bunny. the end.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 16/09/2026

yes, it really does seem possible, if difficult - like something most people have to fight for - and they do!

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 16/09/2026

and, you know, something I think about when I teach, this experience is impossible for the vast majority of people--or, how anyone manages to continue learning and educating themselves after a long, boring, day of corporate work is amazing and inspirational.) 6/5

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 16/09/2026

I wish this phase for everyone. it feels like the best of being a human. 5/5

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 16/09/2026

I find myself reading for as many hours of the day as I can find, for weeks or months on end, often getting so over-stimulated by what I'm reading that I have to force myself to stop. suddenly I have the sense of all the reading I've done, even the reading I did poorly, falling into place 4/5

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 16/09/2026

and, until I got tenure, the quality of my reading along with my capacity for understanding AND enjoyment remained flat. even as I wrote a couple books, articles, taught, assigned reading etc. I don't know how to explain it but since moving from English into Media Studies three years ago 3/5

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 16/09/2026

I stopped reading almost entirely from 15 to 20 years old, with a surge brought on by the discovery of experimental writing at 20 or 21. the volume remained high throughout grad school but the enjoyment, and the quality, decreased dramatically during the PhD...much of it was uninspired reading 2/5

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 16/09/2026

I am puzzled by the big surges, big declines, returning surges that have taken place in my reading life over the last...let's say 45 years. from when I was about 5 to 15, I read truly voraciously--quickly, impatiently, imprecisely. probably even sloppily. 1/5

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 14/09/2026

here to report I just received an invitation to be a manuscript reviewer that offers a 25% discount on classified advertisements in exchange for my labor...

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 11/09/2026

Gawd I would have too! Bawling.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 11/09/2026

‘Melancholic’ is actually the perfect descriptor for most of my trips back to Canada and honestly I love it

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 11/09/2026

Canadian pals, every once in awhile I remember the Tragically Hip don’t exist any more and it’s strange to be in permanent low level mourning for a band—

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 10/09/2026

oh the bubble popping is gonna be BAD bad then

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 10/09/2026

so tiring but also so satisfying in so many ways. some surprises: decapitating heads (possibly while still alive?) and burying the head far from the body, burying them face down and/or in the fetal position, binding hands and feet, etc.

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